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SPORTS MED: How is injury rehabilitation managed? - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ensures healing without scarring (not stretching shortens muscle and is more prone to injury)
    - - implies a build-up of fitness and adaptations to physical stress. Correctly used, principle of progression ensures conditioning is pain-free.
    - - regaining mental and physical fitness to pre-injury levels. Progressively overload muscle groups, resultant rehabilitation adaptations are hypertrophy, stronger tendons, ligaments, capillarisation, elasticity, absence of pain.
  - - - Use of cold is vital in initial treatment of injury (vasoconstriction , reduces swelling)
    - - Use of heat is helpful prior to commencing progressive mobilisation phase (vasodilation increases blood flow)
- - - - Elite players feel pressure to return early as their skills are needed for team wins, some players return heavily strapped/ use injections to prevent pain/ pressure from impact.
    - - Pain in an injury indicates tissue damage. Paracetamol might assist in pain relief of a simple issue ie. headache but use of prescription injections to be able to play are a cause for concern. Painkillers can desensitise injured tissue and athletes can become unaware of further damage being done to injury.